ekirpichov: > Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to introduce monads on one of > the 3-4 slides. While it *is* a core concept, it's not one of the > advertising "bullet points"; and 1 slide is not enough to show what > *use* monads are, let alone what they actually *are*. > > I'd probably suggest you to show something parallelism-related on that > slide: for example, STM. Showing an "atomically do foo" and saying > "And here, we atomically do foo" may turn out impressive :) >
Exactly: focus on what the user wants to do (e.g. write multicore code, write safe code, write code quickly), not how that is achieved: "bounded parametric polymorphism" or "monads" _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
